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Fox Business; Can The Foxes Save the Hen House?

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America, in short, is in a deep funk. Far from feeling hopeful, it appears fearful of the outside world and despondent about its own future. Not only do most believe tomorrow will be worse than today, they also feel that there is little that can be done about it."

And one main reason is that Americans are hurting in their pocketbooks as well as their souls:

"Closest to home is the economy. Wages are stagnant, house prices in most areas have stalled or are falling, the dollar is plunging, and the deficit is rising. A Pew survey last week showed that 72% believe the economy is either "only fair" or poor and 76% believe it will be the same or worse a year from now. Globalization is a major worry..."

Corporate-friendly Fox Business is not speaking to this sense of despair as real populists would, and perhaps like Ron Paul and some of the Democratic challengers, are. And by the way, the rich high CPM (Cost per thousand) viewers at CNBC are also on the defensive, nervous, worried, scared, and maybe even panicked.

This is a time for economic truth, justice and change, a focus on remedying the crimes of institutions, not the flaws of personalities. Who needs more inane business chatter on the ups and downs or markets, or even the posturing ploys of populist posers who pretend at anti-elitism with the money bags of moguls behind them?

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News Dissector Danny Schechter is blogger in chief at Mediachannel.Org He is the author of PLUNDER: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books) available at Amazon.com. See Newsdisssector.org/store.htm.
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